This month, to mark the 50 years of the Israeli occupation of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, we publish an interview with one of the architects of the Oslo Accords, Jan Egeland as well as a discussion of Palestinian nationhood by Yair Svorai the creator of the Israeli OccupationArchive (IOA); a review by Paul Tyson of Yanis Varoufakis’s latest book “Adults in the Room”, an essay by the late poet Wei An on the great American environmentalist Henry Thoreau, and Geoffrey Heptonstall on the power of Picasso’s Guernica and the current exhibition dedicated to the painting at the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid; and much more...

The Nakba, central to Palestinian nationhood as much as the Holocaust is for Jews and slavery is for African-Americans, is the living reminder of the profound injustice inflicted upon the Palestinians.

Jan Egeland was one of the chief architects of the Oslo Accords, the secret negotiations between Israel and Palestine (1993-94) while Secretary of State in the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Spanish news site eldiario.es spoke to him on the 50th anniversary of the occupation.

Our political system is ailing: a Brexit revolution showed how susceptible it is to elite takeover, how it is designed to ignore the hopes of the young and how it fails to offer genuine political options.

An essay from the late poet and environmentalist Wei An on a connection with the 19th Century writer spanning epochs and cultures. The essence of Thoreau is not in the initiation of a “return to nature,” but instead in his respect for “man’s perfection.”

In Saudi Arabia, the president ratcheted up his anti-Iran alliance with Arab dictators. Ironically, Trump is ratcheting up his anti-Iran alliance with Arab autocrats precisely as the Iranian people are sending much more conciliatory signals.